Reply to RM versus Wooton

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "RM versus Wooton"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of RM who also was a coach to multiple kids at Wootton, I personally think Wootton is the better school.  RM parents will cry foul and I don't care.

RM is JW and IB kids.  JW is a terrible middle school and once you get into RM, the IB kids keep to themselves. So many discipline issues at RM.  Vaping, drugs, overdoses, fights, sex, sexual assaults, and now guns on campus 2 incidents 10 days apart.

Wootton has Frost and part of Cabin John.  No IB but so many high course offerings as the school is competitively smart.  The administration is good and the its a very involved school.  the negatives is it is pretty high pressure like the IB program and the school isn't as new and nice as RM.  And parking is the worst.

But when the kids on the team talk, Wootton kids jaws drop when they hear what typical RM days are like and it's gotten worse every year.  I don't hate the school.  I love the diversity and school spirit, but it isn't a school to be that proud of.  Without IB it is basically Rockville High School. [/quote]

I actually have a kid at RM and I would agree with this assessment.  If you have a kid that will not get caught up in the high pressure environment at Wootton, it might be better.

The bathrooms on the 3rd floor at RM are simply closed off because of too many security issues.  And clearly there are safety issues as highlighted over the past several weeks.  The principal is doing a good job and trying to engage parents, but there so many things that are out of her control.

We have family friends at Rockville HS and I agree with the assessment that RM without the IB is basically the same as Rockville when you look at the stats/demographics.  [/quote]
That's complete BS.  Look at the stats between JWMS which is the only feeder to RM and Earle B Wood MS which is the only feeder to Rockville HS.  Very different.

FWIW both clusters -- RM and Wootton -- will be going through boundary changes due to Crown HS being built.  MCPS is going to push for more diversity at Wootton, and then you'll see it look more like RM than Churchill, and the test scores and incidences to go with it.[/quote]

All the areas looking to be redistricted from RM or Wootton to Crown are nice areas. All the areas on the other side or near 355 will stay at RM. Wootton will only lose the Rio apartments/Washingtonian to Crown. RM will lose all of King Farm (RM portions) and the entire Crown will now go to Gaithersburg. It will honestly make RM worse and Wootton better. The main goal of Crown is to clean up Gaithersburg High School. Bussing kids far to other schools for diversity hasn’t worked and there is already a major shortage on bus drivers and buses as is. [b]Wootton has a hugh walking population[/b]. [/quote]
That has not stopped MCPS from moving a walkable neighborhood to another cluster. Just ask the long time residents who still live in Horizon Hill.[/quote]

:roll: Which was what, 30 years ago?[/quote]
so? You think they wouldn't do that today to achieve equity?[/quote]

They don’t have the buses or drivers to achieve this anymore. And honestly, most kids in those neighborhoods go to privates or COSAS anyway.  But it did destroy their home value [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics